I have a 30-bottle(ish) Sunbeam wine fridge that my wife gave me for Christmas around 12 years ago. It's kept a steady temp all this time (it's a 1-zone), and any wine I've pulled from it, even ones that were in for a decade, have been just fine. I guess that's the ultimate test. It has a dark frosted UV-filter glass front, so it looks nice also. Not fancy or expensive, but it's been bullet proof.

I'm afraid that's the only one I've ever had, so I can't opine on the others.

Tom Troiano wrote:I may be in the market for a small wine refrigerator (30ish bottles). I've never really looked at these before and was stunned by the number of brands and the number that I've never heard of.

Two questions:

1. What brands have people here had good experiences with?2. What are the brands to definitely avoid?

I have 2 Sunbeams (47 btl) and one Kenmore (24 btl). Had them for about 8 years. One Sunbeam doesn't cool as well as the other, but the other Sunbeam and the Kenmore work great. The shelves on the Sunbeams don't work well with larger Pinot/Rhone bottles and sometimes fall down a bit, but they were special buys at Home Depot for $150.

I've been looking for something larger to hold all my wine, but reviews are discouraging on most everything that costs less than $3000.

Amazon does have a 107 btl unit listed that has only 5 review but the reviews are fairly positive. A lot of complaint seem to be with the compressor failing and not being able to find any body to replace it.

Also, don't believe the listed bottle count - it is almost always for Bordeaux size bottles. If you have a lot of Pinot Noir and/or Rhone wines the count will decrease significantly. I can usually fit about 35-40 bottles in my Sunbeams because of this. I can always get 24 in the Kenmore however.

Doug

If God didn't want me to eat animals, why did He make them out of meat?

I shop exclusivley online for things other than food, wine and Home Depot type items. 100% of clothes, shoes, books, electronics, kitchen items, Christmas gifts, etc. bought online and I see negative comments all the time about products on company owned web sites.

I shop exclusivley online for things other than food, wine and Home Depot type items. 100% of clothes, shoes, books, electronics, kitchen items, Christmas gifts, etc. bought online and I see negative comments all the time about products on company owned web sites.

The view on a UK forum was that it could not be enforced in there. But whether it is legal or not, it could involve you in a lot of hassle, and the overall effect would be to suppress negative comments so the reviews you see would be biased.